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How important is Race?

I want my character to be focused almost entirely on magic but I'm struggling to figure out which race would be best for me.
Does it really make much difference which race I am in the grand scheme of things?
How important is race to you, when it comes to the abilities aspect of ESO?

Race to me is fairly important as I don't like to play the 'Common/Popular' racial in any MMO...In my case I've chosen to play as an Imperial....However as I mentioned on another thread with the racials yet to be announced it may be that when they are a flock of players change their minds as it may fit with their ultimate end game build ideas....

For my experience so far in mmorpg's racials don't really matter especially at end game content.I hope its the same in Elder scrolls.Even if racials do matter i ignore them cause i prefer playing the race i like than min/max my character.That being said i would play my elf even if it was the worst choice.

I found the passives lackluster really. You have to invest in them to use them (except the first rank of the first passive), so if you pick a race with passives that don't work towards your class than you can just invest into something else. All classes have class specific passives you can invest into anyway. I'm sure that there could be a best min-max build with race in mind, but I don't think it'll make much difference.

This post was last modified: February 15th 2014 08:55 AM byDragonchris